Mizoram III

Mizoram II

There are 3 lakh 8 thousand women voters in Mizoram. Six thousand more votes than men. Yet out of the 205 candidates there are only 9 women candidates contesting the polls.

Mizoram Elections

The Mizo National Front faces a huge anti-incumbency wave this year as Mizoram goes to polls on December 2. In power for ten years, allegedly, MNF has just promised development. MNF also faces allegations of corruption.

Cheap Sunglass Moment

Back from Mizoram. This is my cheap sunglass moment in Aizawl city. Despite friends disowning me this had to happen.

Mizoram Colours

Cricket in Mizoram

Last day of shoot, we got this story on the little masters of the game in Mizoram. Yet to be recognised by the BCCI, the Mizoram Cricket Association and its members are slowely but surely getting ready to make their mark in the game.

Mizoram II

On our way back from Lawngtlai district in Mizoram

Miles In A Corner

Just when we were coming out of David's Kitchen , I saw this Miles Davis poster in a corner. David's Kitchen is supposed to be a "cool" hangout in Aizwal, coffees and conversations. Half-dead after our shoot, we were having tea.

Mautam

The bamboo fruit

Mizoram Famine

On our way to Saikhawthlir village (meaning Sai = Elephant, Khaw = town/village, thlir = seeing/looking/sighting. A town/village where an Elephant is sighted or spotted). Following Phodoti, who walks 6-8 hours to collect a sack of rice. This was our shoot. We were dead by the time we reached her village on the top of a hill. In the photograph, also at the background is Rauta, our friend, without whose help it would have been impossible to carry our equipment. Phodoti's story is pretty much the story of most villagers in Mizoram. More so for the marginalised poor. This includes the Bru s and the Chakma s. Within the poor Mizos, they are treated differently. Almost a million people in Mizoram are surviving on one meal a day. That's because of bamboo flowering that happens every 48 years. It attracts rats, that wipe away acres of crops. This report was on Phodoti's village near the Myanmar border

Happy Mizoram

On our way back from the Mamit district in Mizoram. Mizoram has a very high literacy rate . Second highest in India.

Roll Down The Mountain

Mukut and I on a trawlailir. It's the most popular form of transport used in Mizoram by villagers. Just a wooden cart with a lever for controls. Roll down the mountain or push your way up. Most villagers often keep it in a corner and go inside the forest to fetch wood, get water and then with all their supplies they roll down and get back home.

Mizoram Sunday

This is Aizwal on a Sunday. Everything is shut as the entire town goes to church.

Mizoram

Just back from Mizoram. We were the first TV crew to travel to the interiors of Mizoram and report on the largely unreported famine in the state. A famine that takes place every 48 years after bamboo bloom attracts rats, whose population explodes and thousands of acres of crops are wiped out.